Alan C. Kamil

9.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
111 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Alan C. Kamil is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan C. Kamil has authored 111 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 30 papers in Ecology and 29 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Alan C. Kamil's work include Animal Behavior and Reproduction (43 papers), Avian ecology and behavior (21 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (18 papers). Alan C. Kamil is often cited by papers focused on Animal Behavior and Reproduction (43 papers), Avian ecology and behavior (21 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (18 papers). Alan C. Kamil collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Australia. Alan C. Kamil's co-authors include Russell P. Balda, Alan B. Bond, Theodore D. Sargent, Juli E. Jones, Herbert L. Roitblat, Deborah J. Olson, Sonja I. Yoerg, William G. Hale, Guillermo Paz‐y‐Miño‐C and Ken Cheng and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Alan C. Kamil

110 papers receiving 5.8k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Foraging behavior: ecological, ethological, and psychological approaches

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alan C. Kamil United States	39	2.7k	1.9k	1.5k	1.2k	1.2k	111	6.2k
Sara J. Shettleworth Canada	44	2.0k 0.7×	1.9k 1.0×	2.0k 1.3×	826 0.7×	1.5k 1.3×	113	5.8k
Alex Kacelnik United Kingdom	49	2.9k 1.1×	2.3k 1.2×	1.5k 0.9×	1.4k 1.1×	1.2k 1.0×	127	7.1k
David F. Sherry Canada	42	2.6k 0.9×	2.3k 1.2×	2.0k 1.3×	1.7k 1.4×	551 0.4×	101	6.6k
Bennett G. Galef Canada	52	3.3k 1.2×	4.6k 2.4×	1.3k 0.8×	1.7k 1.4×	816 0.7×	225	9.6k
Nathan J. Emery United Kingdom	39	2.4k 0.9×	3.9k 2.0×	2.2k 1.5×	876 0.7×	1.3k 1.1×	98	7.3k
Gordon M. Burghardt United States	48	3.7k 1.4×	2.4k 1.3×	528 0.3×	1.6k 1.3×	568 0.5×	235	8.0k
Richard Andrew United Kingdom	43	1.4k 0.5×	1.9k 1.0×	3.3k 2.2×	567 0.5×	821 0.7×	112	6.0k
Patrick Bateson United Kingdom	52	3.3k 1.2×	3.7k 1.9×	1.5k 0.9×	2.0k 1.6×	1.1k 0.9×	179	12.7k
Stephen E. G. Lea United Kingdom	39	869 0.3×	1.9k 1.0×	1.9k 1.2×	631 0.5×	1.9k 1.5×	168	7.8k
Susan D. Healy United Kingdom	44	3.9k 1.5×	2.5k 1.3×	1.2k 0.8×	1.9k 1.5×	312 0.3×	188	6.7k

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Wei, Cynthia A., Alan C. Kamil, & Alan B. Bond. (2013). Direct and relational representation during transitive list linking in pinyon jays (Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus).. Journal of comparative psychology. 128(1). 1–10. 10 indexed citations

Kamil, Alan C., et al.. (2013). Differences in Relative Hippocampus Volume and Number of Hippocampus Neurons among Five Corvid Species. Brain Behavior and Evolution. 81(1). 56–70. 13 indexed citations

Kamil, Alan C., et al.. (2013). Changing room cues reduces the effects of proactive interference in Clark's Nutcrackers, Nucifraga columbiana.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Behavior Processes. 39(2). 187–192. 5 indexed citations

Kamil, Alan C., et al.. (2011). Do Clark’s nutcrackers demonstrate what-where-when memory on a cache-recovery task?. Animal Cognition. 15(1). 37–44. 10 indexed citations

Kelly, Debbie M., Alan C. Kamil, & Ken Cheng. (2009). Landmark use by Clark’s nutcrackers (Nucifraga columbiana): influence of disorientation and cue rotation on distance and direction estimates. Animal Cognition. 13(1). 175–188. 22 indexed citations

Bond, Alan B., Alan C. Kamil, & Russell P. Balda. (2007). Serial reversal learning and the evolution of behavioral flexibility in three species of North American corvids (Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus, Nucifraga columbiana, Aphelocoma californica).. Journal of comparative psychology. 121(4). 372–379. 173 indexed citations

Gibson, Brett M., Edward A. Wasserman, & Alan C. Kamil. (2007). Pigeons and people select efficient routes when solving a one-way "traveling salesperson" task.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Behavior Processes. 33(3). 244–261. 25 indexed citations

Kamil, Alan C., et al.. (2006). Interference effects in the memory for serially presented locations in clark's nutcrackers, Nucifraga columbiana.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Behavior Processes. 32(4). 407–418. 17 indexed citations

Gibson, Brett M. & Alan C. Kamil. (2005). The fine-grained spatial abilities of three seed-caching corvids. Learning & Behavior. 33(1). 59–66. 17 indexed citations

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Paz‐y‐Miño‐C, Guillermo, Alan B. Bond, Alan C. Kamil, & Russell P. Balda. (2004). Pinyon jays use transitive inference to predict social dominance. Nature. 430(7001). 778–781. 252 indexed citations

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Spetch, Marcia L., et al.. (2003). Searching by rules: Pigeons' (Columba livia) landmark-based search according to constant bearing or constant distance.. Journal of comparative psychology. 117(2). 123–132. 35 indexed citations

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French, Jeffrey A., Alan C. Kamil, Daniel W. Leger, & Richard A. Dienstbier. (2001). Evolutionary psychology and motivation. University of Nebraska Press eBooks. 41 indexed citations

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Gibson, Brett M. & Alan C. Kamil. (2001). Tests for cognitive mapping in Clark's nutcrackers (Nucifraga columbiana).. Journal of comparative psychology. 115(4). 403–417. 19 indexed citations

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Balda, Russell P., Irene M. Pepperberg, & Alan C. Kamil. (1998). Animal cognition in nature : the convergence of psychology and biology in laboratory and field. Academic Press eBooks. 36 indexed citations

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Basil, Jennifer, et al.. (1996). Differences in Hippocampal Volume among Food Storing Corvids. Brain Behavior and Evolution. 47(3). 156–164. 88 indexed citations

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Kamil, Alan C., Russell P. Balda, & Deborah J. Olson. (1994). Performance of four seed-caching corvid species in the radial-arm maze analog.. Journal of comparative psychology. 108(4). 385–393. 93 indexed citations

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Kamil, Alan C., et al.. (1988). The spatial memory of Clark's nutcrackers (Nucifraga columbiana) in an analogue of the radial arm maze. Learning & Behavior. 16(2). 116–122. 56 indexed citations

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Kamil, Alan C. & Charles van Riper. (1982). Within-Territory Division of Foraging Space by Male and Female Amakihi (Loxops virens). Ornithological Applications. 84(1). 117–117. 15 indexed citations

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Kamil, Alan C. & Theodore D. Sargent. (1980). Foraging behavior: ecological, ethological, and psychological approaches. 612 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kamil, Alan C. & John W. Davenport. (1968). The role of adventitious reinforcment in operant discrimination.. Journal of Experimental Psychology. 76(4, Pt.1). 609–617. 5 indexed citations

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